Quote of the Week
"Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that
the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future,
and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that
the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and
that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary
fashion. A
man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the
local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times
and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of
nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
- C. S. Lewis, from his essay “Learning in War-Time"
(Painting: "Gothic Window," by Ramon Lopez Redondo, 19th cent.)
